Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the
ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.Mother Teresa

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else.Judy Garland

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one
alive who is Youer than You.Dr. Seuss

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the
hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop
fighting.e.e. cummings

This above all: to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself
away.Raymond Hull

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.William Faulkner

The best you can be at any given moment is yourself.Elizabeth Alraune

About all you can do in life is be who you are.Rita Mae Brown

What you are will show in what you do.Thomas A. Edison

Whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing.Yogi Bhajan

you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace.
Someday, you'll catch up.Natsuki Takaya

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living
someone else's life.Kobi Yamada

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love
yourself.Lady Gaga

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.Michel de Montaigne

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my
heart is all my own.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station
and trying to see the object from another person's point of
view.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.Confucius

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.William Shakespeare

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something
but to be someone.Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.Oscar WildeDe Profundis.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being,
only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will
such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as
he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better
than you are.Julius Charles Hare

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter and those who matter don't mind.Dr. Seuss

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is just one life for each of us: our own.Euripides

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.Theodore Roosevelt

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He
devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a
loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.Shakti Gawain

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of
those whom we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire
existence.Honoré de Balzac

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes.
I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet,
I go.Pearl Bailey

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in
the end we become disguised to ourselves.François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one
thing in his heart and speaks another.Homer

If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself.Author Unknown

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think
she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This
is who I am."Oprah Winfrey

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.John Mason

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.Oscar Wilde

You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike
any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember:
If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it
will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.Gordon MacKenzie